One piece of the talk I wanted to highlight was when Ben discussed UI latency. He has a simple feedback test page that lets you see how various delays make you feel. Give it a go and think about what feels sluggish and annoying. It differs between people, but 100ms feels like the “noticeable” level and 200+ feels sluggish. We should have a page that doesn’t show numbers and is randomly setup, and then do a test. What do you think?

Also, to finish off, you owe it to yourself to spend a couple of minutes watching this awesome rant of Louis C.K. as he discusses how screwed up we are wrt expectations:

This is actually incredibly relevant to us as developers, as we run up against expectations in software too. Do you want to meet expectations? Or set new boundaries?